Friday, December 26, 2008

Various Artists - Merkin Records Seedy Sampler

Black Pete must have been the only alternative band in Baltimore that wasn't included on this 1989 20-band sampler CD from Merkin Records:
  1. U. Violets - Gade (actually Ultra-Violets, must have been a legal issue that prevented them using the name on this CD)
  2. All Mighty Senators - Wink (band still active)
  3. Lambs Eat Ivy - Serpentine
  4. Bazooka Joe - Insomnia
  5. Dark Carnival - Back to the Factory
  6. Monkeyspank - Dr. Omar
  7. Jade - Line
  8. Lungfish - Return Descender
  9. The Pearl Fishers - Black Box (not the David Scott band)
  10. The Unknown - Empty House of Night
  11. Rise - God Bless the Creeps
  12. Elements of Design - I Love a Man with Rhythm
  13. The Last Picture Show - Destination (led by writer Louis Maistros as Lu Maestro)
  14. Braver Noise - The Smiths Have Gone to Heaven
  15. Seesaw - Rochelle Bridges
  16. Motor Morons - Another Girl (may still be active, though no shows since 2007; imagine Devo songs played by Einstürzende Neubauten)
  17. Mark Harp - The Drill (guitarist for Null Set/Cabal, also of the Beatoes, Motor Morons, Chelsea Graveyard, the Diamondheads, etc.)
  18. Infant Lunch - Cut the Cord
  19. Grey March - Beneath the Sea
  20. Reptile House - Turning Disease
There's quite a variety of musical styles here: punk, gothic, new wave, Springsteenian populist rock, funk, and more. Get the CD rip here or here.

4 comments:

p. albert said...

This is excellent, as is your blog! It was a treat to find previously unheard Grey March. If you have anything else by them, I hope you'll share it.

blacknuns said...

Thankyou for your interst in the grey march material as i find it to be one of the best tracks from what would have been the bands second record.The album was finished in a rough mix but i am unsure where the tapes are.I hope that the songs will be released some time in the future

Unknown said...

I have this on vinyl on on the Dispicable lable. This was the best release from B-Maore outside of Monkeysopanks Daemons Flew Out of My Mouth. I was around this scene in B-More thru the 80's and into the 90's and kept getting frustrated when Spank never got singed to major or recieved any good underground press. When

mambonassau said...

Any chance you could reup this? It’s virtually impossible to find through conventional means.